Electron Microscopy and other “all-singing, all-dancing” instruments: What can they do for you?

Register before March 1st and get a free session on the new SEM worth £100.

To register please email Dr. Owen Guy   o.j.guy@swansea.ac.uk

10am – Welcome and introduction Dr. Owen Guy

(Introduction to Knowledge Transfer Centres and how they can help you)

10:15 am – Scanning Electron Microscopy in High Definition – SEM never looked so good:

Dr. Thierry Maffeis –  talk and picture show

10:45am – coffee & networking

11:15am – Surface analysis techniques for industry

Dr. Peter Dunstan

11:45am – Nano-fabrication – how to miniaturise your product.

Prof. Huw Summers

12:15pm – Lunch & networking

1pm – Optional tour of facilities*

Summary of talks:

The scope of the seminar is how imaging, characterisation and micro / nano-fabrication can be used to help industry. Dr. Thierry Maffeis will show how Swansea’s new SEM facility can be used to obtain superb high definition images of anything from polymers and composites to micro and nano machines and devices to biological tissues and cells. Dr. Maffies will cover a broad range of industrial applications for SEM such as surface chemical analysis of metals and ceramics, imaging of surface structures, failure analysis from imaging of defects, and many more.

Dr. Peter Dunstan will describe scanning probe microscopy systems that can reveal detailed 3-D topography of surfaces from the micron to nanoscale.  The systems he will describe can be used on metallic, semiconducting and insulating materials.  He will also discuss the centre’s state-of-the-art instrumentation that allows these scanning probe systems to be used in conjunction with optical spectroscopy analysis, namely fluorescence and Raman spectroscopy.  He will focus on the technique of Raman spectroscopy for complementary chemical and structural analysis.   Rapid acquisition techniques to nanoscale analysis will be highlighted.  Industrial applications will focus on nano-structures, such as carbon nanotubes.

Details of biological Raman spectroscopy will also be presented.

Prof. Huw Summers will describe how micro and nano-fabrication techniques can be used to build tiny devices and machines for applications in electronic devices, sensors, micro fluidics (lab-on-chip),  telecommunications, solar cells,  automotive and aerospace.